If you are a student at The Computer Science Department, Alexandria University then you have come to the right place!

This summer is your opportunity to show what talent you've got in location based applications using the weNear API.
The competition will commence on the first of July 2008 and the final submission date is 31 August 2008 11:59 PM Alexandria time.

If you've been following the development of location based applications under Android and the iPhone you must have seen a lot of comparison charts showing the strengths and weaknesses of each SDK and mentioning the differences. Well, now you can cross one difference off that list! As this article mentions, the iPhone SDK lacks a programmable map component similar to the MapView on Android, but you don't need to worry about that anymore; at eSpace, we've written a similar one for the iPhone! This one simply loads http://maps.google.com in a UIWebView which is displayed under a custom transparent UIView that receives touch events and translates them to Javascript Map API calls. The source is available under the BSD license. If you want to merge in any cool updates just drop me a line. Here's a video demo of the thing in action: